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The wreck of the Sv. Nikolai / edited and with an introduction by Kenneth N. Owens ; translated by Alton S. Donnelly ; with a new preface by the editor.

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The wreck of the Sv. Nikolai / edited and with an introduction by Kenneth N. Owens ; translated by Alton S. Donnelly ; with a new preface by the editor.
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2001], c2000.

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  • Owens, Kenneth N.
  • Donnelly, Alton S.
  • Tarakanov, Timofeĭ.
  • Hobucket, Ben.
Description
xvii, 110 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Summary
In 1808 the Sv. Nikolai, owned by the Russian American Company, set sail from New Arkhangel (modern-day Sitka, Alaska) to explore and identify a site for a permanent Russian fur trading post on the mainland south of Vancouver Island. Heavy seas drove the ship aground in late December, forcing twenty-two crew members ashore, including Anna Petrovna Bulygin, the wife of ship captain Nikolai Isaakovich Bulygin. Over the next several months the shipwrecked crew clashed with Hohs, Quileutes, and Makahs, but with little knowledge of the country, the castaways soon found themselves owing their lives to the very tribes they had fought with upon arrival. The tribes captured and enslaved several of the crew members. In 1810 an American captain sailing for the Russian American Company ransomed the survivors.
Subject
  • Tarakanov, Timofeĭ
  • 1800-1899
  • Russians > Oregon > History > 19th century
  • Quileute Indians > First contact with other peoples
  • Indians of North America > First contact with other peoples > Oregon
  • Russians > Oregon Territory > History > 19th century
  • Indians of North America > First contact with other peoples > Oregon Territory
  • Oregon Territory > History
  • Oregon > Description and travel
  • Oregon Territory > Description and travel
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Note
  • Originally published: Portland, Or. : Western Imprints, 1985, in series: North Pacific studies series ; no. 8.
  • First work, translation of: Krushenie Rossiĭsko-amerikanskoĭ kompanii sudna "Svi︠a︡toĭ Nikolaĭ," pod nachalʹstvom shturmana Bulygina, pri severo-zapadnykh beregakh Ameriki.
  • Second work, First coming of the White people to Quileute by Ben Hobucket.
  • "Bison books"--Prel. p.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface -- Editorial Principles -- Introduction -- The Narrative of Timofei Tarakanov -- The Narrative of Ben Hobucket -- Appendix: Ivan Petrov's Fraudulent Tarakanov Document -- Notes.
ISBN
0803286155 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^00048398^
OCLC
  • 45248201
  • SCSB-12648539
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library